I recently had the opportunity to acquire a Sumo brand Omni beanbag chair. I had been so impressed with their versatility and comfort at PAX East 2010, I knew that it would fit perfectly in my gaming living room. At PAX East 2010, there were numerous hallways of the convention center lined with several hundred of the Omni beanbag chairs, so that attendees could sprawl out and play their Nintendo DS, PSP, card games, or just catch a nap by a sunny window. It was cleverly called “The Handheld Lounge.” It …

“Welcome to the apocalypse. Mankind teeters on the edge of extinction, clinging to the bones of the old while trying to recover long forgotten secrets. It is your choice to either rise above the hardships of this post-apocalyptic world and work towards the betterment of society or embrace the destruction and look to erase the corrupt world around you.”
Fallen Earth is a post-apocalyptic MMORPG created by Fallen Earth LLC and and Icarus Studios, Inc. Launched in September of 2009, the game features more than 1,700 square kilometers of landscape to …

There is no doubt that PAX East 2010 was the convention to be at this past weekend if you are a gamer on the East coast. Those of us who haven’t been able to make it out to the original Seattle based Penny Arcade Expo, known as  PAX, have been eager for an East coast iteration. But did PAX East live up to expectation? Well, for the most part that answer is “yes.”
Before I get into some of the problems we encountered at PAX East 2010, I do want to …

The Convention Fans Blog/Alltern8 team rolled back into Philly late last night, after enjoying the final day of PAX East 2010. We’re all pretty tired, and two of us are sick, but the general consensus seems to be that it was all worth it.
Day three of PAX started pretty early. Us members of the press had been invited to a Media Only Q&A with Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins (”Tycho”) and Mike Krahulik (”Gabe”). It was originally scheduled for 9 am, but when we arrived at 8:30 to line up, …

Well, day two of PAX is over for us, and we’ve retreated back to the hotel to get packed up and play a little Magic the Gathering. Day two was pretty action packed, and we’re totally beat.
The morning started out with the team splitting ways. Zack and Dan headed to the Chip Tunes panel, while I chatted with the good folks at Fallen Earth. I got a private demo and some great info on the game, which you’ll get a full report on later this week. The boys said their …